Quincy Abeyie wrote: Tambourine Man wrote: Fingers cross this guy works out. He's a 50:50, make not mistake about that but we have to take a chance. We are not able to blow £50/60/70m on a sure thing so we have to make gambles like this and hope they pay off. History tells us that for every signing like this that we make, one in three or four make it so not getting my hopes up in terms of what he is going to deliver. But as a fan it is always more fun anticipating what a new season will bring with fresh faces who have not disappointed us yet than it is with existing players who have already let us down. The not knowing generates an optimism. A 50/50 with a 25-33% chance of making it, eh?
Tambourine Man wrote: Fingers cross this guy works out. He's a 50:50, make not mistake about that but we have to take a chance. We are not able to blow £50/60/70m on a sure thing so we have to make gambles like this and hope they pay off. History tells us that for every signing like this that we make, one in three or four make it so not getting my hopes up in terms of what he is going to deliver. But as a fan it is always more fun anticipating what a new season will bring with fresh faces who have not disappointed us yet than it is with existing players who have already let us down. The not knowing generates an optimism.
Fingers cross this guy works out. He's a 50:50, make not mistake about that but we have to take a chance. We are not able to blow £50/60/70m on a sure thing so we have to make gambles like this and hope they pay off.
History tells us that for every signing like this that we make, one in three or four make it so not getting my hopes up in terms of what he is going to deliver. But as a fan it is always more fun anticipating what a new season will bring with fresh faces who have not disappointed us yet than it is with existing players who have already let us down. The not knowing generates an optimism.
A 50/50 with a 25-33% chance of making it, eh?
Had a feeling someone would call me on that but the gist is, you never know with signings of this profile.
Gunner89 wrote: Arsenal have moved ahead in the race to sign Lille defender Gabriel after a meeting at the start of the week when the Brazilian found the North London club's reps to be particularly convincing, but Manchester United haven't given up yet, per La Voix du Nord. More follows.
Arsenal have moved ahead in the race to sign Lille defender Gabriel after a meeting at the start of the week when the Brazilian found the North London club's reps to be particularly convincing, but Manchester United haven't given up yet, per La Voix du Nord. More follows.
http://dailycannon.com/2020/08/gabriel-chooses-to-join-arsenal-over-manchester-united-in-e30m-deal/ [size=small][font=Trebuchet, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif]According to [/font][font=Trebuchet, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif]La Voix des Sports[/font][font=Trebuchet, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif], the 22-year-old left-footer has chosen to join up with his former Lille teammate, Nicolas Pepe, at Arsenal despite only signing a contract extension in February that tied him to Lille until 2023.[/font][/size]
Great stuff. Not sure all the equivocating is warranted, totally fine to be excited. He may take a season, but we have the fallback players to support him in Mari and Luiz. This is what squad building should feel like.
I forgot Mari exists. I don't think he's going to factor much for us. I hope he doesn't too, I'm not sold on him.
Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano · 1h Gabriel Magalhães: Arsenal are in the race and have started talks with Lille. Napoli still interested but not moving yet because it’ll depend by Koulibaly future. Manchester United just had contacts with his agents but no talks with Lille atm. Game on. #AFC #MUFC #Napoli
Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano ·
1h Gabriel Magalhães: Arsenal are in the race and have started talks with Lille. Napoli still interested but not moving yet because it’ll depend by Koulibaly future. Manchester United just had contacts with his agents but no talks with Lille atm. Game on. #AFC #MUFC #Napoli
Romano chimes in
Seems like Arsenal is reading our wishlists. when I wishlisted him there were absolutely no links to him 😉
Who would have thought we will move in for one of the hottest young defender in Europe
Arsenal fans online are crazy, Gabriel went on live on some app, and they flooded him with messages 😆 😆 Also, Napoli must hate us 😆
Edu came through with the Brazilian Rolodex.
naz wrote: I forgot Mari exists. I don't think he's going to factor much for us. I hope he doesn't too, I'm not sold on him.
Did we buy mari ? Thought we got him in on loan
Yeah think we made it permanent. He looks poor.
How much did we pay Mari?
Gabriel, Mari, Saliba, Luiz, Sokratis, Mavropanos, Kolasinac, Mustafi, Holding, Chambers
We really are run like a candy shop. What on earth do you call that?
A good oppotunirty to get rid of some garbage.
Watts is more reserved, so yeah, its done.
What do you mean by that?
Well I always assume guys like Charles Watts have no real source to break storys, they say what the club tells them to say. So if he heard from the club that we are in the hunt I think it means it's much more advance from that, otherwise they would said it's not true at all.
HomeSteak wrote: Well I always assume guys like Charles Watts have no real source to break storys, they say what the club tells them to say. So if he heard from the club that we are in the hunt I think it means it's much more advance from that, otherwise they would said it's not true at all.
So he’s a poormans Orenstein?
Ah, right.
Sicario wrote: HomeSteak wrote: Well I always assume guys like Charles Watts have no real source to break storys, they say what the club tells them to say. So if he heard from the club that we are in the hunt I think it means it's much more advance from that, otherwise they would said it's not true at all. So he’s a poormans Orenstein?
I'd rather call Ornstein the poor man's Watts. The latter is more reliable.
Watts replaced wheatley at goal, and i feel wheatley had better sources. Watts has never broken anything of import that i can remember
Fuck, I was thinking of Wheatley. 😆 Where's he gone off to?
